White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park is an American national park located in the state of New Mexico. It is surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range. The park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km2) in the Tularosa Basin. The park has a field of white sand dunes made of gypsum crystals. It is the largest of its kind on Earth,[1] with a depth of about 30 feet (9.1 m), dunes as tall as 60 feet (18 m), and about 4.5 billion short tons (4.1 billion metric tons) of gypsum sand.
White Sands National Park Media
Lake Lucero, an ephemeral lake filled by a significant rainfall
Map of the Tularosa Basin with the park near the center, on the west side
F-117s flying over White Sands to a retirement ceremony in Ohio. Holloman Air Force Base was its home base from 1992 to 2008.
Map of the park and part of White Sands Missile Range prior to the national park designation
New Mexico’s White Sands photomap, December 26, 2022. Photo from ISS.
Gypsum sand from White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Photograph by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster).
Selenite crystal
Parabolic dune at sunset
A skunkbush sumac growing on a gypsum plant stand, or pedestal
A kangaroo rat hops past an attacking rattlesnake
References
- ↑ "Nature – White Sands National Park". nps.gov. National Park Service. January 14, 2017. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
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